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Originally Posted by mandalina
But you know your language first and English second shouldn't you find it weird how it is in English?
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Yeah, English can be very confusing at times. Although I still think it's not a tough language to learn. Pronunciation mainly. How the heck does one word get two different pronunciations?! (eg.
either,
direction). That's not a common thing you find in many languages, or is it?
Also, what's funny is that every verb demands an explicit subject, which has to have a specific gender even though it doesn't affect the rest of the words in the sentence [
He is
happy /
She is
happy .
Happy stays the same]. In Catalan (and Spanish, and most languages that come from ancient Latin), a subject ain't always needed (cause you can tell who the subject is by how the verb is conjugated) but every single object or noun complement has a gender as well [Está content
o / Está content
a; the O, in the first case, lets us know the subject is a HE, while the A; in the second case, makes it unnecesary for the subject to be there cause we know from that one letter it's feminine therefore SHE]. That's why it's funny when an English-speaking person has a go at speaking Spanish, they just never get that right with the genders.
